Olga Jegunova is a multifaceted Russian-Latvian artist combining various genres and disciplines. While being a classical concert pianist, she puts a strong emphasis on educational projects and philanthropic work. Her recent album SLOW encourages listeners to take their time to reflect on the world surrounding them and was released with great success in late 2023. Olga is a Steinway Artist and the Artistic Director of the Festival Les nocturnes at Solliès-Pont, in Provence. Alongside her award-winning pianist career, she has committed toa varied practice of collaborating with other artists, publishing digitally and in print, launching a podcast as well as supporting musicians through fund-raising concerts. Olga’s interactive approach to audiences is another one of her unique qualities reflected in an effort to involve them in the performance by breaking down the traditional boundaries of the classical recital. This also led her to collaborate with creatives from different fields blurring the boundaries between modes of expression. One of her recent projects is Music & Storytelling with Matthew Crampton. Together they created interactive storytelling programmes for all ages featuring Greek mythology, Russian folklore and well- known stories like Peter & The Wolf and The Little Prince. Another recent project called Patience was created during the 2020-2021 corona crisis. It included recording and performing a newly commissioned piece by British composer Ben Ellin in collaboration with French photographer Gerard Uferas. Olga has been playing piano for over three decades, during which she performed various musical genres as a soloist and in ensembles recognized by multiple international awarding bodies, artists and educational organizations. Among them are Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and the Royal College of Music in London. Her repertoire is therefore vast, spanning from baroque to contemporary pieces composed especially for her. Another branch of Olga’s creative career is music journalism and education. Having presented the Tchaikovsky contest LIVE for Medici TV, she started publishing interviews for ZIMA Magazine in print and Russian Art & Culture digitally. This evolved into her podcast exploring the history of music and contemporary musical practice where she is joined by acclaimed creatives to talk about tradition, meditation, experimentation and much more. Olga has founded a charitable foundation supporting talented musicians of all ages and organizing fundraising events digitally and live. As an open-minded and dedicated creative, Olga continuously expands her practice in an effort to enrich the music community.